I took a couple of days off work this week and have been able to focus some time on game development. As always I didn’t get as much done as I thought I would but I think I made some useful progress.
Splash Screens
First up – I purchased some images from the wonderful art collection of David Pentland – http://www.davidpentlandart.com/.
These will be used as Splash screens for Cassino, Fall of France and as an upcoming refresh for Kursk. I will certainly be looking to use more of his art in future games.
Valor & Victory
I spent some time putting in some frameworks that I can expand on later and also use in my other games. I am trying to build up a library of useful components that I can use across multiple games.
The more I can do of this the quicker I can write new games and cut down on the total development time of a game.
I also wanted to refresh the Splash Screen for the developer builds I am doing. For the final release, I will get something professionally done. I did two and went for the top one for now.
Developer build 1.0.0.11 was posted today. Not big visual changes but a fair amount of changes behind the scenes.
Battle for Korsun
Focus at the moment is on the Player V Russian AI. I have made the Russian AI very aggressive as they need to cut off the German units and force a pocket to be formed. The problem as always is in the testing. It takes a while to test out each change and make sure units are doing as expected.
Kursk – Battle for Prochorovka
As mentioned above I am looking to do a small refresh of Kursk. The splash screen at the moment is not very Kursk like so I have wanted to update that for a while. Additionally a while ago I paid for translations to be done for the game but didn’t get them fully implemented. I was looking to get them all in at the same time but I think I need to be less ambitious and do one at a time.
Website Maintenance
I also did a small revamp of the Games section on this website. It now includes all the games I have written or in the progress of writing.
Flipboard Magazines
As always a reminder not to forget my two Flipboard magazines. They are a great way to catch on weekly wargaming news you may have missed and to read my blogs as one magazine.
View my Flipboard Magazine.
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And Finally..
Have a wonderful Fourth of July!
